WaveShark

Amateur bands

Run it as an amateur station

APRS, SSTV, RTTY, Morse and M17 read at once, a KISS TNC for the packet software you already use, and memory banks imported from Chirp.

One receiver covers the modes an amateur band carries at the same time rather than one at a time: APRS with Mic-E on the EU, US and JP calling frequencies, SSTV in Martin, Scottie and Robot modes saved as each picture ends, RTTY from 45.45 to 200 baud, CW read as text at the speed it was sent, and M17 with its packet messages in full.

A KISS TNC on --kiss-listen hands the traffic to any packet program and keys AX.25 back through the radio, so the software you already run treats the SDR as a modem.

Memory banks import from Chirp, CSV, Freqman and SDR# lists and export as Chirp CSV, and on a radio that can transmit, POCSAG pages, APRS beacons, RTTY overs, BLE advertisements, SSTV pictures and RDS names go back out.

$ waveshark --tune 144.8 --mode nfm --kiss-listen 8001

Survey a site and hunt interference

A heatmap of the band over hours, what sits on each Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 802.15.4 channel, and a band walk that stops on whatever it hears.

Read that one